How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective

• Nordelta was built on their wetland habitat—prompting awkward efforts at detente with the colossal rodents.
  — Silvina Frydlewsky, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2021
• Nintendo has created some of the best video games in the history of the medium and remains a colossal industry force to this day.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• That colossal imbalance makes defending Houston’s attack easy.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• The theatre was specially constructed for this colossal screen and is capable of seating 574 viewers.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2021
• The action also has the proactive markings of a government and army still reeling from the colossal failure to protect its people from the Hamas massacre and mass hostage taking 14 months ago.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• As the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe threw him a kiss coupled with a colossal smile.
  — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Another way of putting the above is that records are a colossal pain in the ass.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
• This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ledgers opened a colossal 17-0 gap over the Lightning at halftime.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Blue Jays opened a colossal 39-23 gap over the Trojans at halftime.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The view of New York's skyline, bathed by the fading sun, is shown through the colossal windows.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• The clip ends with all four dancing on the edge of danger while doing choreo in the jaws of a colossal bear trap.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
• Each year, an artist creates a colossal statue that pays homage to the fair's theme.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
• The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Towns will play the four alongside Rudy Gobert, who comes from Utah in a colossal trade.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• But Graceland showed him the colossal hugeness of Elvis.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• The screen, filled with images at once colossal and weightless, may well be the biggest carpet in the city.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In San Francisco, there's a legend of a colossal sope, a corn saucer that's as big as a dog bowl.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• That’s a colossal misstep and shows just how much of a mess DC was before Gunn’s arrival.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• According to the Ice Age Trail Alliance, colossal ice sheets, a type of glacier that covers a very large area, have gripped the the globe 15 times.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
• But the difference is colossal, at times more than 10 times less than that of the enemy.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The people on board watched the colossal creature weave the ocean surface, only yards away.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• This was the first colossal team-up for the MCU, and a lot of the viewers in the theater probably didn't see any of the previous films.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 May 2022
• What the fire wrought marks a colossal loss for Hawaii, for Hawaiian families like Brimeyer's, and for the world.
  — Ashley Pōkiʻi Lewis, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
• In another video, one man can be seen running from the strike as a colossal bang rings out.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• The colossal resort in the Caribbean celebrated 25 years of the finest in hospitality last year.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024